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AUSDM
2007
Springer
118views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Mining Web Snippets to Answer List Questions
This paper presents ListWebQA, a question answering system that is aimed specifically at extracting answers to list questions exclusively from web snippets. Answers are identifi...
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Web question answering: is more always better?
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
TREC
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Effectiveness of web page classification on finding list answers
List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Hui Yang, Tat-Seng Chua
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Set Expansion for List Question Answering
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...